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I spent ~$35 on new cables and my LAN speed increased 6x (sh.itjust.works)
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After seeing that my wireless speeds were much faster than the speeds I was getting over Ethernet, I decided to invest in some new cables. I didn't know it before, but I saw while I was changing them out that my current cables were Cat 5e. While putting my network together, I had just been grabbing whatever cables I could find in my scrap drawers. Now I have Cat 8 cables and my speeds jumped from 7MB/s to an average of over 40MB/s. It's a much bigger improvement than I expected, especially for such a small investment.

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[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago

Cat8 is not the benefit here. It's all twisted pairs as any other CAT cable. You probably just had a shitty quality cable.

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Or ones (or one) that was worn out.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 3 months ago

Yep, a break from being wrapped up tightly a bunch of times

[-] ShortN0te@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Cat8 is not the benefit here.

That is correct. Since we talk about lower then Gb speeds

It's all twisted pairs as any other CAT cable. You probably just had a shitty quality cable.

Yes, but the CAT does not simply do nothing, shielding is probably the most distinguished factor on the CAT rating and it increases the signal integrity and therefore the max speed you can push across the cable. Saying "all just twisted pair" is just BS, or just try to get 10 Gb speeds on a CAT 5 on 100m long cable.

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